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More a propos those gears. Here's a machine a guy named Arthur Ganson, a kinetic sculptor, saw in a dream and then created. (My god, what a profound dream! And what great reward for a creative mind to be attached to a pair of skillful hands equipped to actually make a visionary dream transition into material reality -- and tangibly illustrate a deep truth! In this case, the shocking magnitude and unforeseen implications of exponential powers.) Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are monumental. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn. So it is possible to do anything at all with the final gear, even embed it in concrete. It is, for all practical purposes, never going to move even though it is connected to a 200 rpm motor. Once the prerequisite of exponential powers is set in motion, you can never affect the outcome. Not in two trillion years.

Now, all that anyone needs to do is to apply a bit of common sense and self inquiry. Firstly, consider deep sleep, which (by common agreement) is dreamless. Even if it isn't dreamless, you already know that nothing happens that you can remember, so nothing has ever been described about the experience by anyone nor will it ever be described by anyone (except as a lingering sense that they “slept well"). Secondly, consider that some people claim to remember what happened during their deep sleep. If you stop to consider this for even a moment, instead of buying into their delusion without proper thought, you'll realise that these people couldn't be describing deep sleep (by definition). They must therefore be describing either a dream (or an experience of nirvikalpa samadhi). There’s a video of Greg Goode tearing this nonsense about deep sleep to shreds while describing his experiences of putting straight some of these people who imagine that they have a memory of deep sleep (while he's simultaneously laughing his socks off). His punchline is “Dude, that was a dream...😂🤣😂🤣😂" ☮

Can be a side effect, but not exclusively one. There are specific practices (quite a few) within the main schools of Tibetan Vajrayana and many more available due to the numerous sub-sects within those main schools. Because of this, instead of presenting my personal (biased) take, I'd recommend some readings which are available online. These are quite elaborate commentaries, and may not suit one who's not a seasoned practitioner of mantrayana. Its challenging, but at the same time, informative and elaborative enough to address some of your questions. * One's Own Body of Pure Channels and Elements - Naomi Worth * The Practice of the Dream Body - C. A. Muses * Highest Yoga Tantra - Daniel Cozort * Tantra: Concepts, Energy-Winds and Lineage - - - from the website of Berzin Archives * Death, Sleep and Orgasm: Gateways to the Mind of Clear Light by Jeffrey Hopkins There are more, but the above ought to be quite sufficient material to enable a better grasp from a Vajrayana pov what the cultivation of the central channel entails. Its pretty nuanced, and would require a certain degree of maturity in practice to sieve through it all to obtain clarity. None of the articles cross-ref with Taoist esoteric philosophy and practice, but enthusiastic readers can certainly draw their own correlations, and probably will. But personally, I'm a stickler for authenticity, so no mix and match for me. This 15 minute video may offer the important initial foothold pertinent to whats being discussed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVVq9Bts1KA

Esoteric traditions and the practices therein rarely conform to mundane 'facts'. Part of the fun is finding out, thru experiential insights garnered from practice, is that what's been accepted as 'natural' or 'factual' was actually nothing more than an attitude and mindset determined by deeply ingrained, constrictive habits bound up in body, speech and mind - these in turn feed the delusion of "I, me and mine", a regressing cyclical phenomenon informed by neurotic fears and doubts. In dream work it's like being mired in quicksand, escaping, only to fall into another, and another... before suddenly waking up bewildered, drenched in cold sweat.

There is no reality to the dream world, the people we meet in the dream don't exist and are just projections of the local mind. When our dream ends, the existence of everyone one and the dream world itself vanishes. But the waking state is different. There is subjective reality and there are others ( relatively) in the waking state. This is the difference I see and this difference is important in my understanding.

The rain is coming, right where you are, even pouring all over you, you're just staying in the draught, to experience a different reflection of how it is possible to experience the lack of what you want, even whilest what you want is right inside of you. It's like on the flipside of your being. You can simply look into the direction of it, and focus upon it, to understand how your consciousness is capable of experiencing the act of creation. When you are always creating exactly what you want, one wants to have an experience of a dream where you are not who you actually are. So you dream a dream of fires and draught. But the rain is still there. It doesn't go away. Everything is still accesible. But you want it to be spread out. Space and no time. Spaaaaaaace. Universe now after universe now, shifting 5 billion times per second of perspectives. New here and now. New here and now. This is a different mode of consciousness and dimension. But your soul still has full knowledge and knowing of all spread out time into forever this. Forever this. Forever this. Time spread out wide and open. In one single point of space. And you can feel your emotional guidance. To help you know, that if you want rain, you can focus upon it, and it will be evermore here and now for you. But you have to understand the value of knowing the draught, which has helped you know that you prefer rain. For if the preference was not there, then you would simply enjoy the fire. So appreciating the fire is how you allow yourself to let it go, and thus allow the rain. Effortlessly. You don't need to change anything. Because your soul is already there. It is only a matter time, you see? You can focus on rain, and it will be evermore here and now for you. Because you are already there. Reminding yourself, that YOU have decided to go to the rain. And if your physical body stays focused upon the flame, you create a tension of resistant energy within the two points of view, of your physical being and your greater non-physical consciousness. That feels like negative emotion. To remind you, that what you want, already is. It is a matter of focusing it into beingness. Or greater allowed realisation. Of who and what you already are being and becoming evermore here and now. If you want others to come with you, you create further resistance for yourself. Because you do not, and you cannot, create in the life of other people. You cannot choos for another. And if you try, you only lessen your own natural freedom, to be, do or have anything you want. Much joy to you.

Oh yes experiences never stopped. Contact I do not know hey I was happened in 2009 but my memory was wiped until 2014 so what else do I not remember? But there are things I have experienced that are normal such as lucid dream, paralytic dream, confuso honoric dream and dream like that you know. They come with really small drones that move really really fast and they are visible like only a fraction seconds or something I feel they scan my head and mind because my eyes have some sort of ''tilt'' . But the one that I am latelly is I think cosmic preparation to transformation. Before it was all about being played in my mind and over 3 or 4 years I remember what happened in 2009 but latelly. It is something else but I think I wrotte it in another thread. I feel all electric like if every atoms of my body where vibrating and trying to reorganise or change shape. I feel all electric and I feel like I can transform into something else but something is blocking my consciousness of being something else than human so I just stay stuck in this form. I feel like my bones are plasticine and will reform differently. That is what I am usually experiencing lately but in the past years it was all about revealing memories about the abduction meeting. Many people had influence in their mind to have alien sort of knowledge and on my side it was about time travel and manipulation. But I have a thread named ''Cosmic being'' in wich we can talk more about what I think the cosmic familly does to me. But for an official contact or meeting? Nope! I had one in 2009 and I told them I was going off for 10 consciousness years so I won't have an other official meeting until fall 2019.

The way I think about it, there is a fundamental logical contradiction that is apparent: everything is completely empty and lacking any self, yet there is all of this phenomenon appearing like.... well, like magic. As Mipham Rinpoche says, "appearing yet empty; empty yet appearing," or the Heart Sutra's "form is emptiness, emptiness form" or the traditional 8 similes of illusion or the Longchenpa's second vajra point. Now a lot of people like to rely on the simile portion, saying it is "like" this or that. To me, I tend to follow the logic, much like Gendun Chophel: I struggled with this for a long time, until I started to look into quantum physics. Quantum physics introduces experiments that boggle logic. There are similar logic boggling things that arise in practice and in sleep/dream yoga. Accordingly, I feel I had to make a choice: my logical framework, or direct experience. In the end, I realized I had little choice but to embrace paradox. Appearances are fundamentally mysterious, and wonderful. In other words, magic. In Buddhism, the texts are replete with reference to "illusions" and "illusory" nature. However, Bob Thurman pointed out in English this is a little demeaning, so he prefers the term "magical." Similarly, on the Yogacara side of Mahayana, everything we experience is a transformation of consciousness, a literal dream. To paraprhase B. Alan Wallace, waking is dreaming with conditions, and night dreaming is dreaming without conditions. Again, that strikes as as eminently magical. Interesting side note: I always wondered about the magical illusion simile in Buddhism, where rocks and string can take the form of elephants and so on. Jan Westerhoff pointed out what this was in one of his books:

A model of Buddhist logic in discerning voidness, its pertinence in relation to self liberation, with a small passing refutation of Samkhya and Nyaya Vaisheshika positions. Excerpt from the Berzin Archives. (53) As it's like this, derision's improper in the direction of voidness. Therefore, without indecisively wavering, meditate, please, on voidness. (54) Voidness is the opponent for the darkness of the emotional and cognitive obscurations; (so) how can someone wishing for omniscience quickly not meditate on it? (55) (Cognizing) phenomena (as truly existent) gives rise to suffering: generate fear for that. But (realizing) voidness pacifies suffering: so why does fear generate for that? (56) (Go ahead and) be afraid of whatever, if there were something called a "me"; but as there's nothing that is a "me," then whose fear will it be? (57) Teeth, hair, or nails are not a "me"; nor am "I" bones or blood. ("I'm") neither mucous nor phlegm; and nor am "I" lymph or pus. (58) "I" am not fat or sweat; nor am "I" even lungs or a liver. "I'm" not any of the other inner organs; nor am "I" feces or urine. (59) Flesh or skin is not a "me"; nor am "I" temperature or energy-wind. In no way am "I" ever a bodily hole, nor are the six types of consciousness a "me." (60) And if (a person) were a permanent cognizer (as Samkhya asserts, and) of a sound, the sound would be cognized all of the time. But when bereft of something it cognizes, what does it know, by means of which it could be called a cognizer? (61) If it could be a cognizer without cognizing (something), then absurdly a stick would also be a cognizer. Therefore, it's certain that without something nearby that it's cognizing, it can't be a cognition. (62) Suppose (you said), "It itself is then cognizing a sight." (Well,) why doesn't it also hear at that time? If (you answered), "Because the sound's not nearby," (well,) then it's no longer a cognizer of it. (63) How can something having the nature of the cognizer of a sound become the cognizer of a sight? One can be labeled a father and a son, but not as his absolute nature. (64) And it's like this (because) sattva, rajas, and tamas (as the absolute nature of both a sound and a sight) are neither a son, nor are they a father; (and because) that (cognizer of a sight) has never been seen with a fundamental nature connected with a cognizer of a sound. (65) (Suppose you persisted,) "Like a dancer, it's still itself, but seen with another mode (of guise)." (Well then,) it wouldn't be static. And suppose (you clarified), "It's still itself, but (its fundamental nature) is in another mode." (Well then,) its oneness is one without any precedent. (66) Suppose (you explained), "But its assorted modes (of guise) are not true," then describe, please, its own (innate) natural (guise). Suppose (you answered,) "It's being a cognizer." (Well then), absurdly it would follow that all persons are one. (67) (Further,) what has intention and what lacks intention - those two would, in fact, become one thing, because their existence is the same. And, if individualities were contrary to fact, then what could be their shared support? (68) Furthermore, something lacking intention cannot be a self, (as Nyaya-Vaisheshika asserts), because of its nature of lack of intention, just like a vase and such things. Now (suppose you claimed), "It's cognizant because of a conjunction with an intention," then it absurdly follows that (this) noncognizant (self) has perished. (69) And if the self were (in fact) unchanging, what could have been done to it through (a connection with) an intention? (Moreover,) space is noncognizant and inert like that, so, it (as well) could become a self. (70) Suppose (you then objected), "But, without the (true) existence of a (static) self, the connection between behavioral cause and effect would be unreasonable, since, if it perished after having done an action, then whose action would it have been?" (71) (Well,) since it's established for both of us that the action and result have a different basis, and that the self hasn't an active role in this, isn't it useless to debate on this (point)? (72) "Someone providing a causal (action) and conjoined with its result" - this has never been seen as an existent thing. It's in reliance on the unity of a continuum that it is taught, "(Only) the agent can be the experiencer (of the results)." (73) The already-passed and the not-yet-arisen minds are not the self, since they don't exist (now). And well, if the (presently) arising mind were the self, when it perishes, there would, in fact, be no self! (74) For example, when the trunk of a plantain tree is split into parts, nothing (is found); likewise, when searched for with discerning analysis, a self isn't (found as) an absolute thing. (75) (Suppose) you asked, "If a limited being didn't exist, toward whom could there be compassion?" (Well,) it would be toward one who was conceptually labeled by a bewildered (mind) that had committed itself to the goal of its fruit. (76) (Suppose you then asked,) "Whose fruit would it be, if there were no limited being?" (Well,) that's true. It's accepted that (the wish) is due to bewilderment; (yet,) for the sake of pacifying suffering completely, bewilderment about the fruit is not turned back. (77) But because of bewilderment about the self, the cause of suffering, self-inflation, increases. (Suppose) you said, "But, there's no turning back from that." (Well,) best is meditation on the lack of an (impossible) self. (78) A body is neither the feet nor the calves; nor is a body the thighs or the hips. The belly or the back is not a body; neither is a body the chest or the arms. (79) The sides of the torso or the hands are not a body; nor is a body the armpits or the shoulders. The inner organs as well are not it; and neither is a body the head or also the neck. So what (alternative) could a body be here? (80) If this body were located with a portion in all of these; then, although the parts are located in the parts, where is it itself located? (81) And if a body itself, in its entirety, were located (everywhere), in the hands and so forth, there would be as many bodies as there were hands and so on. (82) As a body's not (located) outside or inside (the parts), how could a body exist in terms of the hands and so forth (as their possessor)? As it's also not (a possessor) separate from the hands and so on, how could it possibly be (truly) existent? (83) Thus, a body's not (truly) existent; but, because of bewilderment in terms of the hands and so forth, a dualistic mind arises of a body. It's like the dualistic mind that arises of a man in terms of a scarecrow, by its feature of having been set up in its shape. (84) For as long as the conditions are assembled, the body (of a scarecrow) is seen as a man; likewise, for as long as there are hands and so on, a body is seen in terms of them. (85) Similarly, because of its being a composite of fingers, which one could be a hand? (The same with) that (finger) as well, because of its being a composite of joints; and a joint as well, from the breakdown into its own parts; (86) And a part as well, through a breakdown into particles; and that particle as well, because of directional divisions; and a directional division too, because of its being without (findable) parts, like space. Consequently, even particles don't (truly) exist. (87) Therefore, what discerning (person) would be attached to a bodily form, which is like a dream? And when, like that, a body doesn't (truly) exist, then what's a male and what's a female?

Dreams are perception to me. So, is the external world that we see during the waking time. From the standpoint of the perceiver, these two seem to be the same. Then comes the question, what is the difference between the dream and the waking state? Here are the differences, I perceive. The experience in the waking state seems to have more clarity and detail compared to the dream state. For instance, I don't know if people can eat, taste or smell in dreams the same way as we do in the waking state. I can't. The big difference, I would say is the perceived continuity, we have different dreams every night, the waking state seems to continue from where it left off before sleep. I wonder if we have only one dream if we go to sleep every night, that continues where it left off like the waking state. What would really be the difference between a dream and the waking state? Which one would we call dream and which one as reality??

I too have discovered the origin of Atlantean language ... also in a dream ( well, I think it was a dream ) . Translation : " HELP ! HELP ! I got my dolphin dick stuck in this god-damn water filter intake ! .

it was not yang qi. It was kundalini and I did this 3 years ago. I had a dream a snake bite me. and energy went into the three channels I felt it. maybe Yang qi was a apart. but it was definitely kundalini energy, if I stop doing masturbation, I have dreams of snakes and the energy tries to rise again. but my body is damaged and I have neuropathy in all my limbs. I think our language barrier is difficult, and there is no point in me trying to convince a stranger its kundalini. I have not done breathing techniques in 4 years. I have been laying in bed. and the energy has continuously tried to raise on its own. thats why its not yang qi. once this energy opened up It has a mind of its own. I have not done any breathing techniques for years.

From ‘New Age’ in Wikipedia: Non-Western and indigenous criticism New Age often adopts spiritual ideas and practices from other, particularly non-Western cultures. These may include "Hawaiian Kahuna magic, Australian Aboriginal dream-working, South American Amerindian ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremony, Hindu Ayurveda and yoga, Chinese Feng Shui, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi"[391] The New Age has been accused of cultural imperialism, misappropriating the sacred ceremonies, and exploitation of the intellectual and cultural property of indigenous peoples.[392][393][294][394] Indigenous American spiritual leaders, such as Elders councils of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Navajo, Creek, Hopi, Chippewa, and Haudenosaunee have denounced New Age misappropriation of their sacred ceremonies[395] and other intellectual property,[396] stating that "[t]he value of these instructions and ceremonies [when led by unauthorized people] are questionable, maybe meaningless, and hurtful to the individual carrying false messages".[395] Traditional leaders of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples have reached consensus[392][397] to reject "the expropriation of [their] ceremonial ways by non-Indians". They see the New Age movement as either not fully understanding, deliberately trivializing, or distorting their way of life,[398] and have declared war on all such "plastic medicine people" who are appropriating their spiritual ways.[392][397] Indigenous leaders have spoken out against individuals from within their own communities who may go out into the world to become a "white man's shaman," and any "who are prostituting our spiritual ways for their own selfish gain, with no regard for the spiritual well-being of the people as a whole".[398] The term "plastic shaman" or "plastic medicine people" has been applied to outsiders who identify themselves as shamans, holy people, or other traditional spiritual leaders, but who have no genuine connection to the traditions or cultures they claim to represent.

Sadhguru's wife Vijayakumari gave up her physical body through mahasamadhi in 1999. Her interest in Mahasamadhi came up after hearing a talk over the subject by a saint they had met in a forest. Even though Sadhguru discouraged her then, she went through the process and attained enlightenment and Mahasamadhi . This happened in front of many disciples and people. Since Vijayakumari was relatively young, her parents who were obviously concerned of her wellbeing and not knowing the intricacies of mahasamadhi, could not accept her physical death and filed murder charges to bring more scrutiny over her death. The police however after investigation stated Sadhguru to be innocent of any wrongdoing. This happened way back in 1999, but is usually taken up by people focused on the negatives. Vijayakumari led a dream life with Sadhguru , who often took her in his adventure trips and motorbiking expeditions throughout the country. Both of them were not born in a background of yogic culture and had led fairly materialistic and secular lives, till Sadhguru's experience of enlightenment on Chamundi Hill on Mysore. Sadhguru had also spoken of his wife's experience of Mahasamadhi here... https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/sadhguru/man/vijji An enlightened master had stated to me that most people who attain enlightenment leave the body consciously. It's not that they are embracing death but are embracing life at a much more conscious and blissful level. He told me that it is those who have previous impressions or tendencies of compassion, as well as having articulate communication skills, who usually remain in the body so as to share their experiences and teachings, and show the path to others as well. Buddha had himself left his body though Mahasamadhi after he found that his body was old and damaged by disease beyond repair, and had stated his intentions to his disciples as well as final instructions. Jiddu Krishnamurti , after getting diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer at 90, similarly ended his talks and lectures , citing his lack of fitness for the same, and after communicating his decision to leave his body through mahasamadhi to his close friends and associates, gave up his body. This is stated in the biography 'The Light of Krishnamurti' by his friend and associate Gabriele Blackburn.

I refer once again to my dream of the vine and the structure, the trunk of the vine and the post are indistinguishable from each other and yet have to be pulled apart, your author chooses yoga, I choose my method, and I have seen that my method will work for me, and the job will be done properly and once and for all. The only way I could make a mistake is by rushing to the outcome before finishing the initial work. edit to clarify: “The ego is a chameleon which takes any colour, any shape, according to the atmosphere in which it lives. It knows its tricks very well, much more than all the understanding can work. It is a chameleon in the sense that it can assume the colour of the atmosphere in which it lives, so that we cannot detect it or discover it. It is one with the atmosphere, so how will we discover it? It has taken the same shape, colour and value of the conditions under which it is living, so it cannot be attacked.” This is the trunk and the post, indistinguishable from each other. What I know is that the ego can also take on the cloak of nonduality, it assumes the colour of the atmosphere in which it lives… so that we cannot detect or discover it… What better place to hide?

In my final semester, I am studying and engaging in dialogue with Taoists, peace activists and educators. I am also keeping a journal of these interactions and studying journal learning. All of this is being studied in relation to my undergraduate work (in holism, peace studies and holistic medicine, or progressive education). So my questions for Tao bums are: Do you keep a journal? If so, briefly explain your experience/s? Resources about this topic? Same for dialogue. Do you engage in effective or global, or inner dialogue (well everyone uses inner dialog, I guess the question, then, is: How often is it conscious?) and what are your experiences of this? How do you feel about dialogue in general? Here is a good one: What are some of the greatest dialogues you have experience or participated in? What are your thoughts about these questions? Thank you for helping my project!!!

So I was in this dream version of an old house that I was a kid in. So I'm in the house and I get the feeling something strange is going on in the Attic. When I look at the Attic these two creepy Spirit witches are in there and they look really creepy and weird and scary and they start coming at me but I'm saying one of my mantras to keep them away but I can tell they're looking for a way to get me. So anyway this goes on for a few minutes and then I wake up and I can feel something really bad in the room with me so I do the mantra for real and then it goes away. Coincidentally my daughter said that she had a weird dream last night that involved zombies.

Maybe I was thinking of this post.. or from this interview with her- https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/35367-taomeow-ttb-interview/ ".. 9. You talk about ganying. Which feels to me a little like luck. How do we increase ganying or synchronicities in our life? Ganying is certainly an important component of “luck,” but “luck” is, in and of itself, a major notion of traditional taoist thought -- and a separate science, an application of certain universal relativistic, stochastic principles to personal human concerns. Ganying is understood as a kind of resonance, a fractal of reflections of events and phenomena into different scales and dimensions which on some level appear “similar,” “related,” “patterned on each other” and on some other level, blatantly “the same” – like the sound produced by plucking a string is the same sound of the same string whether you hear it from within one inch or one foot or a hundred feet away from the source. Whether there’s an amplifier in between or a soundproof wall. To learn to discern ganying, resonating meaningful relatedness of phenomena that don’t appear related to a superficial analysis by inadequate methods -- “coincidences,” “similarities,” “sameness” of phenomena -- one needs to learn to listen. It’s like with music – you recognize a melody, and then a style, and then a performer, and then an emotional or creative or mood-affecting, heart-affecting, etc., impact of music on your life, by listening, paying attention, and internalizing the patterns. Perhaps you can even learn to play an instrument. Perhaps you can become a true virtuoso if you practice daily and put your body and soul into the practice. Then you won’t have to rely on luck to hear your favorite guitar piece or violin concerto – you can produce it, anytime you like. That’s the relationship between ganying and luck.." <brilliant stuff, imo> We have one word for luck and tend not to delve into it to much. Interesting to see other cultures and how they relate to luck. The closet I get to it, is when I play Life as Dream; looking at life, interpreting it, as if it was dream. Where happenings are full of symbolism, messages and synchronicities.

The "Mahamudra" and non-dualism in the Buddhist tradition, an historical note from Wikipedia ("Mahamudra"): The actual practice and lineage of mahāmudrā can be traced back to wandering mahasiddhas or great adepts during the Indian Pala Dynasty (760-1142), beginning with the 8th century siddha Saraha. Saraha's Dohas (songs or poems in rhyming couplets) are the earliest mahamudra literature extant, and promote some of the unique features of mahamudra such as the importance of Pointing-out instruction by a guru, the non-dual nature of mind, and the negation of conventional means of achieving enlightenment such as samatha-vipasyana meditation, monasticism, rituals, tantric practices and doctrinal study in favor of mahamudra 'non-meditation' and 'non-action'. Later Indian and Tibetan masters such as Padmavajra, Tilopa, and Gampopa incorporated mahamudra into tantric, monastic and traditional meditative frameworks. I particularly like the bit about "non-meditation" and "non-action". "The non-dual nature of mind", the self-awareness that can take place at the hara, especially in "non-meditation" when breathing becomes a "non-action". More history I didn't know, from that most trustworthy of all sources (kidding), Wikipedia ("Tilopa"): (Tilopa) became a holder of all the tantric lineages, possibly the only person in his day to do so. As well as the way of insight, and Mahamudra he learned and passed on the Way of Methods, today known as the 6 Yogas of Naropa, and guru yoga. Naropa is considered his main student. He began to travel throughout India, receiving teachings from many gurus: from Saryapa he learned of inner heat (Sanskrit: caṇḍalī, Tib. tummo, inner heat); from Nagarjuna he received the radiant light (Sanskrit: prabashvara) and illusory body (Sanskrit: maya deha, Tib. gyulu) teachings (Cakrasaṃvara Tantra), Lagusamvara tantra, or Heruka Abhidharma; from Lawapa, the dream yoga; from Sukhasiddhi, the teachings on life, death, and the bardo (between life states, and consciousness transference) (phowa); from Indrabhuti, he learned of wisdom (prajña); and from Matangi, the resurrection of the dead body. As advised by Matangi, Tilopa started to work at a brothel in Bengal for a prostitute called Dharima as her solicitor and bouncer. During the day, he was grinding sesame seeds for his living. During a meditation, he received a vision of Vajradhara and, according to legend, the entirety of mahamudra was directly transmitted to Tilopa. After receiving the transmission, Tilopa meditated in two caves, and bound himself with heavy chains to hold the correct meditation posture. He practiced for many years and then met the mind of all buddhas in the form of Diamond Holder Vajradhara. He is considered the grandfather of today's Kagyu Lineage. Naropa, his most important student, became his successor and carried and passed on the teachings. Again from Wikipedia, an eye-witness account of Naropa: I thought I would go see the Lord Naropa, since his reputation was so great. I went east from Magadha for a month, as I had heard that the Lord was staying in the monastery known as Phullahari. Very great merit arose from being able to go see him. On the day I arrived, they said some feudal prince had come to pay homage. So I went to the spot, and a great throne had been erected. I sat right in front of it. The whole crowd started buzzing, "The Lord is coming!" I looked and the Lord was physically quite corpulent, with his white hair [stained with henna] bright red, and a vermilion turban on. He was being carried [on a palanquin] by four men, and was chewing betel-leaf....

Here is the thing I met Jeff in dreaming before I met him in waking hours. I never said he appeared in dreams rather I felt the energy while awake trough which I felt trough meeting his followers so then followed that energy inside a lucid dream and met both his followers and him. Its a different thing. Dreams are always just dreams what else can they be but here is the catch - for example in our waking hours what we think is mostly illusion cuz in reality its just a bunch of noise and what we consider real are things that are physical, that's why we call this reality physical reality. Since dreams are similar to the mind the real thing there is energy and if you are able to feel energy that then you will know undoubtedly if you are dealing with something or someone real rather then with a dreaming projection. If you think dream is just a dream why don't you use it as such and behave as real as you do in the waking hours by implementing your will there just as you do here. Dreams are called dreams for a reason because everything is possible there you can dream real things as well and talk with anyone you want its like huge internet. This is a far better approach then to discarding dreams as something not real because that would mean you just discard the other 50% of your existence only because you think you know better which in the end is just useless noise in your head telling you that. You see you can't really eliminate what is real with dreams just because they are projections.. It would be like saying you are dead while you dream which is impossible if you are an eternal living being.

No tear-jerking or trickery here. Just the facts as I currently understand them. Sometime in June or July, although it may happen before, we (all of us living here) are parting ways, and my parents as well as myself need another place to live. I no longer wish to live with my parents. I wish to stand on my own, have my own space or place. And I wish to do this on my terms - not how society dictates. I know it can be done, but so far I have proven not up to the task. I want to be sure my parents are settled somewhere nice, so I can feel free to worry about myself. Ideally I would get my own little house - just two bedrooms - one for sleeping and one for creating content for YouTube. I like what I am doing for YouTube right now. I know that it is not uncommon, once you get through all the hoops and hurtles, to earn $4,000 a video. It is just one unconventional way to do something you enjoy that others are willing to pay you for, and in that way you are of service. My little house would have a well-drained, not mucky and private backyard with at least one old tree I could sit under and mediate. Room to do Tai-chi and yoga. Either easy access to transportation, funds to pay for a Lyft or something like that, or my own car. A hot tub I could use to heal my achy sore body. Ideally I would have a $5,000 budget to build a new computer and get the gear I need to keep doing what I do. Anything left would pay for a physical trainer and a yoga teacher. That is a brief sketch of my dream. It's a nice looking future, but I can't see any way to it from here. Its like looking at a beautiful painting on the wall, wanting to go there, but of course you are unable to. What my immediate future looks like to me is that either the computer I am currently using (that has parts from when I built it in 2012-2013) will give out, or I will give up on YouTube because I am struggling to get my subscriber count up, through no fault of my own, or simply because I will be homeless, and have no way to keep making content. I have done all I know to do and tried all I know to try. I have been aware of the Universe speaking to me through coincidence, handing me two books that both essentially said the same thing about envisioning your ideal future and allowing the future to pull you towards it, instead of letting the past define your future, which is the default state we are all improperly raised to be in. I worked my arse off these last few months at YouTube and am even trying to get a job in the local school district as a supplemental plan until I am doing better at YouTube, assuming I even manage to do better. And now I am dealing with these compounding health issues. There are darker and deeper aspects of this I might speak of later. But for now, this is what I perceive. Just asking for your help, in whatever way you are willing to provide it. Prayers, sending energy - the usual. Tony Robbins tells how he used to be a janitor, and something like a month later, he flew over the building where he used to work in a private helicopter, headed to one of his events. Other accounts are littered throughout history, and there is just as much information on abundance and manifestation. I am well-versed and studied in these materials, yet I have been unable to achieve success. Mastin Kipp talks about inflexible nervous systems as being one of the reasons people can't change. That is the next tangent I am chasing. But I have learned that looking at myself as if I am broken only creates more brokenness I need to fix. In other words, if I am searching for a problem in myself I will surly find it, and this will never end - the ouroboros eating its own tail. The trap of all self-help. It is still difficult to tell myself that I am perfect as I am. That there is nothing broken, nothing wrong with me. That I just don't fit and there are simply adjustments I need to make. Then I recently realized that I don't need to pull out of this nose-dive that is my life, I just need to jump out of the plane and let it crash. The plane is my past, and by trying to do anything to correct my life based on the past I chain myself to it and all the ruts I have been mired in for years. Better to bail out and start over. But even these recent things I have learned have not been enough to help me take a single step towards any sort of desirable future or life I actually want to live. I am posting this to "come out" as it were, to ask for help and let it be known I need it. To make my desires and needs known. To put them down here in black and white instead of letting them continue to clog up the inside my head while trying to do everything by myself. I am stuck, I need help, I do not know what to do. Thank you for reading, and for your support.

I am going to write my dream journal here..just for the record keeping. It happened this morning. I had this dream. It began with me finding myself sleeping on a double bunked bed. I woke up and to realize that there was a stranger sleeping with me. It turned out to be a naked man. I am not gay but not short of having dreams involving gay individuals. Nothing sexual. Once I woke up, while in the dream, I felt that I was sleeping in a public facility like a shelter. I realized that this was the place for all kinds of people and strangers to stay overnight and to sleep in. It was a bit disturbing because I went to bed in my own bed and in my home and waking up, in the dream, in a public facility with all sorts of strangers. The location reminded me of my apartment as a kid. In the dream, I felt that I have no belongings...except my camera bag. It was like I lost all of my possessions except my camera bag. This may mean that the only material things I am still clinging onto are my camera equipment. Anyway, in the dream, I jumped to the floor and immediately was greeted by a Caucasian lady. Out of nowhere, she told me that she saw darkness in me. I then asked what did she mean by that....if my darkness came from my own mind or being generated by the surrounding. I found her assessment was a bit odd to say that I was dwelling in darkness and yet I could ask discriminating questions about the nature of this darkness. I told her I have the ability to read people's emotions and to assimilate their perspectives as my own. Now, she was starring at me very intensely. Here, I realized she was trying to read my mind. I looked at her with a smirk and began to evoke my dark energy generated from my entire life experiences. It was my attempt to scare her with my life. At this point, her expression was nothing by frights. Like someone shouldn't be piercing into the soul of another because the truths could be too overwhelming for the individuals. Now, I began to ask her what did she see in my mind. She didn't answer but attempt to runaway. Here, her figure began to fade..fading out like about to disappear. Now, I saw a black lady here and she was telling me that the nature of this facility was a public place. And my mind was originally deceived in thinking that it was my home. After she finished talking, I noticed that my camera bag was stolen. I went inside to another room, reminded me of my parent's bedroom. I saw two individuals going through my bag. I tried to stop them but my 2 cameras were stolen or missing. And these individuals didn't have the cameras on them. However, I noticed that I still had my wallet and money inside too. I walked back out and saw this lady again and asked her if this was what she meant about seeing darkness in me...that having my cameras stolen. Now, she was getting agitated and telling me to stop asking her all these questions because it was making her to do too much work. LOL LOL....She then proceeded to read my mind now with very huge efforts...and her words became incoherent...something about a King....about abuse of power...and something else. She was completely overwhelmed and she was trying to prevent herself from telling me what she saw. She saw something in my future but could barely contain her emotions. I woke up feeling refreshed and feeling a deep sense of understanding. Sometimes, these morning dreams are like that for me. They become so lucid you feel cleansed. Was someone probing my mind? For one thing, Spirit Guides or Sambhogakaya beings do not feel exhausted or agitated when asked about what they see in your own mind. They generally don't have problems revealing certain truths to you. Second, rather than pointing out what is wrong with you, they generally guide you with instructions in order for you to overcome certain issues you have. This white lady was like trying to create fears in me. Instead, she saw her own mirror...her own fears. And this place I was in.....first my mind was drifted to it because it reminded me of my old apartment as a kid. Then, a black lady telling me it wasn't real, this place was actually a public facility designed for people to sleep in. And they searched my camera bag but they didn't find any cameras in it. I get the feeling that someone was looking for something in my mind. It turned out my mind is pretty simple. I couldn't help but to wonder if the NSA or the CIA is using some psychics to read my mind and to unearth some secrets. Hate to disappoint them but my life has no secrets. No, I don't work for the Russian govt or the Chinese govt despite that I frequently made many correct assessments about the war in Syria, in Ukraine, and recently about president Duterte turning his back on America...to become an ally with China.

My earliest clear memory is of becoming lucid in a dream back when I didn't differentiate between dreaming and waking life... and I've been coming lucid in dreams on and off my entire life. I've had countless experiences in dreams that are more vivid than physical reality and as all experience serves to reveal my authentic nature through my response to stimuli, I have come to value dream experience as readily as physical ones and have come to appreciate dreaming as a very potent realm of self exploration, unfolding realization and cultivation. The unshakable, palpable sense that the waking world is akin to a shared dream has always resonated with me. And many cultures talk of this... The Tibetans and Aboriginal Peoples of Australia come to mind. As the dreaming mind works in symbols, in my experience it can be potent ground for initiating shifts in the aspects of our minds/selves that lie beyond our pinpoint/flashlight like rantional waking mind. Though I have seldom engaged in any traditional Magick aside from rudimentary divination (norse runes and tarot) and a healthy respect for following my intuition when it reveals itself, I have worked in my dreams my entire life to great effect. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tensin Wangyal Rinpoche is a book I recommend.

為了避免這個主題，只剩下人身攻擊這類沒營養的話 我希望留下一些可供新人參考的資料 清淨光法身，如果是在入睡過程中產生，必然會有意識的浮起 如果是整個過程都在入睡當中，並且沒有意識的浮起 那這種清淨光法身只不過是夢境的一種，算是幻境，假的 如果有意識的浮起，那必然跟陽生二階段發生的過程相同 也就是在你出現清淨光法身之前，你就已經經歷一段很長的演化歷程 從幾何圖形光，到大曼陀羅光，到圓月，紅日等等，你都經歷過了 這樣你出現的清淨光法身，才是真實的法身 各位要知道，任何光的演化，必然伴隨意識的演化，而且依照一定的次序 不會單獨出現 如果單獨出現的，必然是幻境 In order to avoid this theme, only personal attacks are left with no nutrition. I hope to leave some information for newcomers to refer to If the Dharmakaya of pure light is produced during the process of falling asleep, consciousness will inevitably arise. If the whole process is falling asleep, and there is no consciousness floating Then this kind of pure light Dharmakaya is just a kind of dream, it is an illusion, fake If it arises consciously, it must be the same process as the second stage of Yang Sheng. That is, before you appear in the Pure Light Dharmakaya, you have already gone through a long evolutionary process. From geometric light, to big mandala light, to full moon, red sun, etc., you have experienced it In this way, the pure light Dharmakaya you appear is the real Dharmakaya You must know that the evolution of any light must be accompanied by the evolution of consciousness, and in a certain order does not appear alone If it appears alone, it must be a illusion.

The tantric practice of sleep yoga can be used to experience the Clear Light during sleep. It develops the ability to remain connected to awareness during the transition between wakefulness and sleep, coming to rest or abide in Clear Light during dreamless sleep. It is also possible to rest into Clear Light by dissolving the lucid dream state. It is said that if one has a few experiences of the Clear Light of sleep they are more likely to self- recognize in the bardo after death.